Do you feel like you spend your weekdays waiting for the weekend only to spend the weekend exhausting yourself with a packed calendar? Are you enjoying time as a family but often have a nagging feeling that you’re missing something or missing out on something? It may be because you have an imbalanced list of goals or intentions for your free time (written or mental).
In Family Bucket Lists I help parents and families create a more satisfying plan for how they spend their time (together & apart) by providing questions that probe deeper and look more broadly at what comprises a meaningful life for them. Seeing the imbalance and being empowered to adjust it is as easy as mapping your goals across four categories: what you want to see, what you want to do, who you want to be and who you want to meet. Often we’re running like crazy on weekends and ending our vacations exhausted because our goals have fallen into only one or two of the categories. Noticing what we want to accomplish in other arenas allows us to prioritize and maximize every day, not just our weekends or vacations.
This Family Bucket List Breakdown worksheet charts your goals in those four categories and reveals the imbalance at a glance.
Print it out and see how your family’s bucket list stacks up. You may find that just breaking it into these categories helps you uncover desires you’d forgotten about. You’ll see where you may need to adjust your plans and expectations. And if you want help on the next steps, or if you desire to go even deeper to make sure you won’t look back when the kids are grown and wish you’d done life differently, check out Family Bucket Lists. You can download it and start making a more balanced list together today.
